Saeed Jones

The book I’m writing is titled HOME OUT THERE. It’s about black queer people leaving home to find home. I weave my own experiences with biographical chapters about three black queer poet ancestors: Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray and Audre Lorde.

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

The response to Kirk’s death has neatly folded into the broader fascist purge of journalist, educators and artists.

Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states. AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE. Freedom is not to be hoarded.

I’ve come around on outer space.

Excellent thread:

PARDON MOI??????????

In line with the weather this week, I put on my parka and headed out to meet a student for coffee. It’s 60 degrees out right now.

You know what? Go ahead and bring back the draft. I’ve HAD it. Men are lonely, men are bored, men are unemployed. It’s time to bring back trench warfare. Give them a hobby.

Still thinking about this story out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I’ve been recommending this essay to a lot of friends and students so I figured I should probably share it here too: “How To Mourn” by Tyrese Coleman, published in The Kenyon Review in 2017

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“City residents are concerned about the datacenters' use of water, what might happen to their electricity bills, and how noisy the building will be… Beale Infrastructure, the company behind the datacenter, won’t talk to local media and has gotten city officials to sign non-disclosure agreements.”

This is it, the perfect description of RFK, jr’s voice: